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CHRISTIAN

A term (Gk. christianós) found in the Bible only in Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16. Among both Latin and Greek writers, it was common to add the suffix -ianus (Latin) or -ianos (Greek) to the proper name of one considered to be the leader of a group. According to Acts 11:26 it was non-Christian Antiochenes of Syria who first applied the name to followers of Jesus. This indicates that they were known by outsiders as persons who followed one known as Christós, and it implies that from a relatively early period people recognized something distinctively non-Jewish about the movement (since it is unlikely that Gentiles would have known the Jewish significance of the word christós, “messiah”). It was not until the early 2nd century that Christians began with some regularity to employ the term as a self-designation (e.g., Ignatius and the Didache).

J. Bradley Chance






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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